Spotify

Streaming

Spotify

Microservices architecture with 2000+ services powering audio streaming

Employees:9,000+

Revenue:$14B+

Founded:2006

HQ:Stockholm, Sweden

Ticker:SPOT

Key Metrics

Users600M+ users

Uptime99.9%

Premium Subscribers240M+

Songs100M+

Microservices2,000+

Tech Stack

React

Java

Python

Cassandra

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

Backstage

Apache Kafka

TensorFlow

System Architecture

2000+ Microservices on GCP

Spotify Architecture

Cloud-Native Audio Streaming

Client Applications

Desktop (Electron)

React, TypeScript

Mobile Apps

Native

Web Player

React

API Gateway

Apollo GraphQL

GraphQL Federation

2000+ Microservices

Playback

Java

Discovery

Python, ML

Library

Java

Social

Java

Platform (Backstage)

Backstage Developer Portal

TypeScript, React

Kubernetes

GKE

Storage

Cassandra, BigTable

Key Components

Backstage Developer Portal

Open-source internal developer platform for managing services and documentation

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Discover Weekly ML

Personalized playlist generation using collaborative filtering and NLP

TensorFlow

Spark

Kafka

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Sources

https://engineering.atspotify.com/https://github.com/spotify

Last updated: 2024-12-01